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Abutment Disconnection/Reconnection Affects Peri-Implant Marginal Bone Levels: A Meta-Analysis, Theofilos Koutouzis, Fatemeh Gholami,, John Reynolds 2435439, Tord Lundgren, Georgios A. Kotsakis

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Purpose: Preclinical and clinical studies have shown that marginal bone loss can be secondary to repeated disconnection and reconnection of abutments that affect the peri-implant mucosal seal. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the impact of abutment disconnections/reconnections on peri-implant marginal bone level changes.
Materials and Methods: To address this question, two reviewers independently performed an electronic search of three major databases up to October 2015 complemented by manual searches. Eligible articles were selected on the basis of prespecified inclusion and exclusion criteria after a two-phase search strategy and assessed for risk of bias. A …